Joseph holzgens



(No Model.) u

J. HOLZGBNS.

,HOLDER FOR NEEDLES AND OTHER OBJECTS.

No. 324,557. Patented Aug. 18, 1885.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOsEPH HOLZGENs, OE LANGEEWEHE, rEUssIA, AssIGNOE To OTTO vorT AUW, OEEHEENEELD, GERMANY. y

HOLDER FOR NEEDLES AND OTHER OBJECTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,557, dated August18, 1885.

Application ilcd Juno 14, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH HLZGENs, of Langerwehe, in Rhenish Prussia,Germany, have invented a new and Improved Holder ,j for Needles andother Objects, of which the following is a specification.

Needles, pencils, pen-holders, or other Objects, which are oftenfastened in series to cards of pasteboard, paper, or other substance,

to have heretofore usually been secured to such cards by threads ofyarn, bands Ot' rubber, or the like, which arrangement has thedisadvantage that upon the removal of onel or more of the Objects heldby the same thread or band the remainder will be loosened and apt tofall from the card,` and that the objects fastened to the card will soonbecome stained at the points of contact with the thread.

My invention has for its object to overcome 2o both these disadvantages;and it consists in holding the needles or other articles in place bymeans of a wire which is bent in form of a spiral and inserted into andthrough openings in the card, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a card andfasteners involving my said invention. Fig. 2 is a back view ot` thesame. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line c 0,'Fig. l. Fig. 4. is aface View of a 3o modified construction of the card. Fig. 5 is a backview of the card shown in Fig. l. Fig. (i is a cross-section on the line7c k, Fig. l.

A in the drawings represents a card of pasteboard or other substance, towhich the needles or articles B B are fastened by spiral wires D D. Thecard A may be provided with one or more rows of parallel slots, a (t, ofthe kind indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, the several slots in each roWbeing substantially equally far apart from one another. Thespirally-wound Wire 4o D is thereupon placed into and through the slotsa a in such way that projecting loops b b will be formed by said wire onthe face of the card A, while against the back of the said card the Wirewill lie flat. The needles or other objects, B, which are to be held inplace on the card are then passed through the said loops b b, the Wirebeing pulled tight and its ends bent or secured, so as to prevent itfrom slipping.

Instead of the slots a xa, double series of 5a equivalent holes d d maybe formed in the card, as in Fig. 4, for the reception ofthe spiralwire.

|Ihe invention can be applied to cards having loops b b on both sidesfor holding Objects on both faces. Thewire being, substantially rigidwill hold the articles in place, even if some of them have been removedfrom the card, and will always allow objects once-removed to bereinserted. As the wire does not 6o attract moisture it will not be aptto stain the articles B B.

I claim- A holder for needles and other objects, consisting of thespirally-wound wire D, in cornbination with the perforated'card A, saidwire being arranged to form a series of loops, b b, as specified.

JOSEPH HOLZGENS.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL SPAOHMAN, TH. BUTMANN.

